Rocco Rossi

At age 50, his factory shut down and he lost his job. Two years later, his money ran out, and so did his wife and young daughter. At age 55, he was walking the Camino de Santiago in Spain. That’s where I met him. During the Depression, many “rode the rails” in Canada and the […]

November 3, 2011 — Our panel wonders whether Toronto’s most notorious neighbourhood will ever change; Adelaide and Richmond will share the road with cyclists; and how the city’s human rights office could possibly justify looking into a complaint about the presence, as memorabilia, of a former mayoral candidate’s campaign poster. Get more episodes of this […]

The City Hall press gallery has been asked to take down a provocative campaign poster that describes one-time mayoral candidate Rocco Rossi as a “Goodfella” following a complaint to the city’s human rights office

A year after Rob Ford’s election, what has changed for Toronto? Perhaps more to the point, what hasn’t? Toronto is still scrambling to plug annual gaps in its operating budget. It’s still a nightmare to get anywhere in the city. Cyclists and drivers still seem locked in some form of ritualistic combat. No, wait. I […]

Sarah Thomson perhaps said it best earlier in the day, as she did some last-minute canvassing on College Street. “I feel like we’re David and Goliath, the little guy taking on the big guy,” she said. And for much of the night, it appeared Goliath would fall. The former mayoral candidate and publisher of the […]

John Manley, a Liberal MP for 16 years and one-time leadership candidate, said this week the party’s collapse was a long time in coming and reflected a leadership convinced of the party’s entitlement to govern. He suggested eliminating the many “minor power brokers” within the party: “The youth commission, the women’s commission, the aboriginal commission, […]

Former mayoral candidate Sarah Thomson will vie for a seat in the Ontario legislature next fall. On Tuesday, the CEO of Women’s Post announced on her Facebook page that after much deliberation, she has decided to align herself with the Ontario Liberal Party. She will run in the downtown riding of Trinity-Spadina, an area she […]

Rocco Rossi, the mayoral candidate and Liberal-turned-Progressive Conservative, is keeping careful scrutiny of what we report about him, and had this response to our chat on the Posted Toronto Podcast last Thursday: “Just for the record, I ended the campaign with about $54,000 in debt on almost $1.3 million raised and spent. Only Smitherman had […]

The Hill Times, which calls itself “Canada’s Politics and Government Newsweekly” has an article about the Conservatives’ prowess at fundraising. “Tories raise whopping $17.3 million, parties question ‘Republican-style’ tactics,” it says. You will notice the terminology. Opposition parties can no longer accuse the Tories of “U.S.-style” tactics, because the President is a Democrat now, so […]